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Mental Illness Prose Poems

These Mental Illness Prose poems are examples of poetry about Mental Illness Prose. These are the best examples of Prose Mental Illness poems written by international poets.

I dreamt myself dreaming myself dreaming myself dreaming--

I       woke       up

on the mattress placed in our living room. I found a...

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Categories: prose, anxiety, confusion, dream, emotions,

Second Guessing In To Out

Second Guessing In To Out

Sometimes, I wish… my ears to brain to mouth worked as close to normal as possible. These are the times when...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,

Alphabet Soup Stigma

Alphabet Soup Stigma
A multitude of letters bob and undulate as I stir the soup. 

I gaze confused when I notice the letters haphazardly merge together…Magnetized...

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Categories: prose, anger, conflict, confusion, mental

Good Enough

Good Enough

Cry Ugly’s shame lost its power.

I took back my power… no longer relying on external validation of my worth…

Unflinching reflection revealed that cry ugly's...

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Categories: conflict, confusion, emotions, husband,

SCHADENFREUDE -



        The convinced sadistic silence

           manipulative action perpetrated,

...

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Categories: prose, abuse, allusion, hate, mental

Mental Illness and Prayer

 “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;” ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8 NKJV 

It’s tough living...

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Categories: prose, christian, mental illness, prayer,

Saint Nickles

In a far off place in a cold cold land there lived a man called Mr. Mack. The place he lived in was called Kirkland...

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Categories: prose, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, character,

The Tempest

Do you feel the great turning, the maelstrom coming around, spitting sparks of searing birds that circle each other screaming in a language like pain?...

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Categories: prose, death, environment, mental illness,

Rebirth Me

Wicked memories haunt my dreams at night and stalk me during the daylight, denying me any measure of peace and tranquility. Please, take me to...

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Categories: prose, hope, mental illness,

One Price of Peace

I have been crying today thinking of the young man, aged 23 locked up,in a prison remand cell awaiting assessment by the,Mental Health Authorities. ...

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Categories: mental illness, military, sorrow,

Storage 14

because I am definitely far from your name and because I feel the coldness of the stones I inhabit, in addition to the roughness of...

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Categories: prose, analogy, mental illness, sorrow,

At Birth With the Spirit of God

 At birth I was "BORN With "The Spirit Of God within Me"! A little bit later "In Time", I met with "The Spirit Of...

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Categories: prose, 12th grade, 5th grade,

What Are You Thinking

I
to think or not to think
NOT A QUESTION
but many answers therein

II
If I think when necessary
I am open to Space, Background:
For repeat-thoughts are demons

III
Fingers cover my...

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Categories: prose, change, freedom, mental illness,

The Mind Or the Soul

The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed Allan Horwitz's book, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible", which claims that 'DSM', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...

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Categories: depression, god, jesus, spiritual,

Undetected Cotards Syndrome

She knew she was dead
so she did not answer the doctor
or the nurse
or the orderly
or anyone else
why don’t they leave a corpse alone? She thought

They...

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Categories: prose, mental illness,